Daily Devotion of Psalm 8

Daily Nugget:
The purpose of good godly music is to glorify God, not the singer or the flesh, as so many modern Christian songs do today. This ancient Hebrew hymn does just that; it glorifies God.

Psalm 8 puts many of God’s accomplishments to music in:
Verse 1, 9: God has done more than any man has ever done.
Verse 1: He has made beautiful Heaven higher than our skies.
Verse 2: God has protected His own.
Verse 3: God has made the celestial bodies.
Verse 4: Yet with all God has made, he has put man, that He also created, of great importance.

God has:
Verse 4: Allowed His son to come to this Earth for a great purpose.
Verse 5: Although man is not as important as angels, God has given him great responsibilities and respect.
Verse 6-8: God has put man in charge of His earthly creation.

Today’s Thought: 
The difference between God and man is God gives, gives, gives, and forgives, while man gets, gets, gets, but still forgets. — Author Unknown

Words to Understand:
Excellent: recognized for all outstanding accomplishments, of great value
Gittith: a musical instrument played in Gath or an indication that this hymn should be sung to the tune of another popular song
Glory: outstanding beauty
Ordained: set down together, established

Today’s Reading:
Psalm 8
1 To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.
3 ¶ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!